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Recognizing the impacts of violence at the workplace, school, and home, Thousand Waves offers interactive, skill-building programs for corporate and small business employees, teachers and other school staff, direct service providers in non-profit agencies, and for adult and teen clients of organizations as well as student groups. From short workshops to multi-session programs, these trainings build team rapport as they provide effective skills applicable to all parts of participants' lives.
Adult programs address safety issues both inside and outside the workplace. Participants learn how to accurately assess areas of danger in their lives and increase their awareness, self-confidence, and safety. Our model includes mental strategies to help you think clearly under stress; assertive communication skills to help you set a limit or deescalate a tense situation; and positioning strategies to limit your engagement and reduce vulnerability. We also teach simple and effective strikes and kicks to enable you to escape from physical violence if avoidance is impossible. A new program covers self-care and wellness techniques to help with the physical and emotional effects of stress and fear.
Teen programs teach safety skills for violence prevention at school, home, and everywhere in between. We address the specific safety issues that affect teens – "stranger danger;" teasing, social exclusion, threats, and violence at school; and a dating person's rights and responsibilities. Participants learn how and when to set appropriate boundaries and practice using their voices effectively to confront violent behavior. They also learn self-calming techniques to cool down before reacting in anger, as well as ways to extricate themselves from volatile situations by defusing violence. Finally, we teach simple self-defense strikes and kicks to disable an attacker.
Empowerment is the goal of all our personal safety programs. We don't give our students a list of rules to follow. Instead we teach them principles that can be effectively applied to their own lives. This enables them to take charge of their safety and respond assertively when faced with threatening or violent situations both from strangers and from people they know.